Summer at Rogers Reserve 2016

10th January 2016

SUMMER OBSERVATIONS AT CHARLES & MOTEE ROGERS BUSHLAND RESERVE, HIGHFIELDS.

A walk through the Charles & Motee Rogers Bushland Reserve in suburban Highfields today, provided plenty to see.  Birds and butterflies aplenty, along with flowering shrubs, wildflowers and more.  Here are just some of the photos of things that we managed to capture, that caught our eye, this morning.

BIRD LIST 10/01/16

1. Spotted Dove Streptopelia chinensis
2. Common Bronzewing Phaps chalcoptera
3. Laughing Kookaburra Dacelo novaeguineae
4. Sacred Kingfisher Todiramphus sanctus
5. Dollarbird Eurystomus orientalis
6. Galah Eolophus roseicapilla
7. Australian King-Parrot Alisterus scapularis
8. Pale-headed Rosella Platycercus adscitus
9. Rainbow Lorikeet Trichoglossus haematodus
10. Scaly-breasted Lorikeet Trichoglossus chlorolepidotus
11. Variegated Fairy-wren Malurus lamberti
12. Noisy Miner Manorina melanocephala
13. Eastern Whipbird Psophodes olivaceus
14. Australian Magpie Gymnorhina tibicen
15. Common Myna Acridotheres tristis

INSECT LIST 10/01/16

1. Orchard Swallowtail Butterfly
2. Blue Triangle Butterfly
3. Glasswing Butterfly
4. Small Grass Yellow Butterfly

Hairy-leaved Lollybush (Clerodendrum tomentosum)

Male Variegated Fairy Wren (Malurus lamberti)

Fruit of the Small-Leaf Tuckeroo

Rainbow Lorikeet's

Purple Berries on Native Grasses

Juvenile Eastern Whip Bird

Crows Nest Fern

Fringe Lily Wildflower

Laughing Kookaburra

Devil's Needles Berries

Scaley-breasted Lorikeet checking our a nesting hollow

Blue-Bell Wildflowers

Juvenile Australian Magpie

Parent & Juvenile Australian Magpie's

Berries on Tape Vine

Pale-headed Rosella

Wandering Sailor Wildflowers

Can you see me?  Noisy Miner camouflaging in a Small-leaf Tuckeroo

Nest of a Noisy Miner Honeyeater

Red Beries on native Salt Bush

Indian Mynah's (Invasive Pest Species)

Dollarbird - migratory bird that returns to Charles & Motee Rogers Bushland Reserve every year from
Papua New Guinea